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Transcript
In this episode on the Scent of Light I will speak on Power,
one of the Ten Words to the Creative Spirit, in which my mentor
Dr. William Hermanns’ wrote:
Give me Power so I can speak with authority.
Power is harnessing one's will to manifest as purposeful action. And since
our lives are intertwined with other humans and life forms, the
manifestation must include them. Speaking entails engaging others to share
information to increase our and their understanding. When the speaking is
done with authority, a trust is gained out of respect for the source of
authority, which helps attract unity of purpose in the action being
proposed.
The call for all hands on deck by the captain of a ship is answered with the
crew working together at each post they have been assigned to assure the
ship can harness the power of the ship engines, the wind and ocean currents
to stay the course to its chosen destination. The crew responds to the
captain’s command for they respect his authority. If for some reason the
captain has lost respect of his crew, perhaps by being insensitive to their
needs, the captain will need to negotiate for reconciliation or use threat
of punishment and penalties to coerce cooperation in tending the operation
of the ship's functions. Threats, however can lead to mutiny, which scuttles
the purpose of the captain's desire for the ship to stay on course. Trust of
the crew needs to be reestablished.
The most effective authority requires self knowledge. Knowing oneself alone
in the stillness within to knowing oneself in the physical world that we
sense with our body gives one the possibility of authoring one's story to
unfold that is in concert with this self knowledge and our unique purpose in
living this life, of which we feel to be an integral part.
My mentor William Hermanns, obviously an authority I trust after years of
helping him write and organize his manuscripts and poetry for publication,
wrote this poem for me in this regard of authorship as a creator:
Be True to Yourself
Be true to yourself. Be still and know.
No bonds of the blood, and no nation,
no yesterday’s chain, no tomorrow’s hope—
the Now is your truth, your salvation.
Rise in your fullness and create.
Be conscious of only one bond:
Your partnership with cosmic laws.
Go forth, create your beyond.
When we speak with the authority expressed in this poem, it is indeed
powerful and attracts cooperation. It is not just a narcissistic meditation
of what my friend Rev Randy Hurley refers to as “ I-me- my", but a
recognition of a universe governed by laws, of which science is methodically
revealing to us piecemeal over the ages, as well as the recognition of our
self in the midst of the silence of our mind experiencing the present
moment, Now. Intuition arises out of the stillness, beyond our mind
calculating with just past knowledge, but is attuned to our true purpose and
the cosmic laws affecting its attainment in a timely manner through our
authorship, our creativity. The self confidence, not deterred by an identity
merely based on group affiliation, is gained with our reflection and is
conveyed as we speak with this authority, making our speech effective to
listeners and thus powerful to attract cooperation in achieving the purpose.
Such a person is trusted for not assuming manufactured authority.
Therefore I ask the source of creativity,
Give me Power so I can speak with authority.
This is Ken Norton on the Scent Of Light. You can contact me via Ken at
KennethENorton.com. The Scent of Light episodes are archived on the web at
kennethenorton.com that is k e n n e t h e n o r t o n dot com. Thanks for
listening.
Ken Norton earned his master's degree in Materials Science from Stanford
University as the Vietnam War was ending. During that time Ken served as the
personal assistant to a poet/sociologist Dr. William Hermanns as he prepared
his writings for publication, exposing Ken to not only the sciences but also
the humanities and comparative religion for making conscious and
conscionable choices.
Ken is a regular contributor to Radio Spotlight Magazine with his episodes
on the Scent of Light.
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